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does this make me a bad historian?
Do you remember my little midshipman from a few posts ago, who wrote to his father about becoming a politician?
Curious about what actually happenned to him, I googled his name, and discovered he died during the War of 1812. Today I finally read the letters of his last cruise of the Argus, and read more about his death. I'll probably make a full post on what I've found, but after reading it I just feel drained, like it was someone I knew who died, and not a 27-year-old Master Commandant who died almost 200 years ago.
My poor but very brave little midshipman.
Curious about what actually happenned to him, I googled his name, and discovered he died during the War of 1812. Today I finally read the letters of his last cruise of the Argus, and read more about his death. I'll probably make a full post on what I've found, but after reading it I just feel drained, like it was someone I knew who died, and not a 27-year-old Master Commandant who died almost 200 years ago.
My poor but very brave little midshipman.
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You could perhaps steel yourself for extra writing by doing it in his memory?